Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0451494024 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Over the past five decades, JOHN MAUCERI has conducted symphonies, operas, ballets, musicals, and film music around the world, appearing in the world's most famous venues and serving as music director of four opera companies and three orchestras, as well as hosting television and radio programs. An accomplished recording artist, he has more than seventy albums to his name, a
Mauceri rips the smoke and mirrors off his profession with wicked and gleeful lucidity, filling us in on its history and answering questions you didn’t even know to ask. John leads us on a journey, taking apart the complex and rebuilding it in a way that creates a narrative anyone can understand. Conductors are largely mysteries and intentionally so. This irresistible and unique book is guaranteed to send you to the concert hall and your CDs with newly educated ears—and heart.” —John Guare, playwright “Articulate and insightful, John Mauceri unapologetically invites us into his world, offering a perspective seldom shared and little understood. This book not only unmasks a profession, it does the same for meeting and knowing John himself. Everyone who cares about classical music should read this book.” —Larry Wolff, author of T
Mauceri, who worked closely with Leonard Bernstein for eighteen years, studied with Leopold Stokowski, and was on the faculty of Yale University for fifteen years, is the perfect guide to the allure and theater, passion and drudgery, rivalries and relationships of the conducting life.. With candor and humor, Mauceri makes clear that conducting is itself a composition: of legacy and tradition, techniques handed down from master to apprentice--and more than a trace of ineffable magic. An exuberant, uniquely accessible, beautifully illustrated look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century.John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative, consistently entertaining exploration of his profess